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350000 Barrels


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  1. [...] And like the Sesame Street song, the bloody trail leads from places as far away as Sudan all the way home to the scum bags who think they rule the world… [...]

  2. [...] Unfortunately, those who commit abuses against humanity or against the law find abusing legitimate secrecy to conceal their abuse all too easy. People of good conscience have always revealed abuses by ignoring abusive strictures. It is not WikiLeaks that decides to reveal something…” Sounds familiar to the eye trained on the unrelenting war on the planet, as exemplified by BP’s crimes and their work (and failure) to destroy the evidence, such as the results of the horrific use of dispersants, and the fact that The Q-4000 rig is burning off 6,000 barrels of oil a day, burning which creates sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in the air and when they merge with moisture, creating acid rain. Acid rain is so acidic it can eat away brick and concrete with time. Speaking of brick and concrete walls, it’s a poetic coincidence that at the same time that the Wikileaks/Afghanistan story is breaking, the story of the 2004 assault on Fallujah and its effect on civilians being “worse than Hiroshima” breaks yet another wall of lies… Assange’s life was threatened by the US a month ago when his leak was leaked, and that, too, was familiar to Iraq War whistleblower David Kelly, who was murdered, also revealed in this article on Sunday… And like the Sesame Street song, the bloody trail leads from places as far away as Sudan all the way home to the scum bags who think they rule the world… [...]

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